RE: Debugging focus related issues

Hi Schneider,

Yes, GUI related problems might be a bit tough to debug because when the
breakpoint hits the debugger will pop up to the foreground, which changes
the z-order and focus of Windows on the desktop. When we press F5 to resume
execution again, the debuggee window will focus again which may cause a lot
of problems.

One way to resolve this problem is using remote debugging, but it requires
a bit of time to setup for debugging. Another way is using old style trace
statement for debugging. The blog below talks about it:
"Tracepoints are AWESOME!"
http://blogs.msdn.com/jfoscoding/archive/2006/03/16/553420.aspx

Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
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